Fflur Dafydd

Fflur Dafydd is an award winning novelist and screenwriter who writes in Welsh and English. She is the creator and writer of all 24 episodes of PARCH, the popular returning BAFTA Cymru nominated series for S4C, and the author of 14 episodes of BAFTA Cymru nominated thrillers 35 awr and 35 Diwrnod, for which she also received a best writer nomination in 2019. To date she has contributed over 50 hours of primetime drama to S4C and the BBC iPlayer, as well as writing on other shows, such as the Chinese remake of the sci-fi sensation Humans.

She is the writer and co-producer of the feature film Y Llyfrgell/The Library Suicides, based on her own award winning book (Y Llyfrgell, Y Lolfa 2009), and the film won the Best Performance Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as well as a BAFTA Cymru award. In 2016 she was longlisted for a BIFA for debut screenwriter and in 2017 and 2019 received a BAFTA Cymru nomination for best screenwriter. Y Llyfrgell/The Library Suicides has been screened at festivals worldwide and a reimagining of the original novel was recently published in English as crime novel 'The Library Suicides' (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023.)

Her other novels include ‘Atyniad’ which won the Prose Medal at the 2006 National Eisteddfod, an English reworking of which, Twenty Thousand Saints, won the Emerging Writer award at the Hay Festival in 2009. She became an International Fellow of the Hay Festival in 2014 and she has also participated in Iowa University’s world renowned International Writing Program, and is a graduate of UEA’s creative writing course.

Her most recent TV series is Welsh-language art crime thriller, Yr Amgueddfa, which received several award nominations and is now available on BBC iPlayer in the UK, on Britbox in the US and Canda, and AXN Mystery channel in Japan.